AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Ryzen 9 5900XT vs Xeon Platinum 8170M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900XT is faster than the Xeon Platinum 8170M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Platinum 8170M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores with 26 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.